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Player reportPremier League 2026

Yasin Ayari

Brighton
Half-space creator CM
40% of actions in the half-spaces
Capability Analysis
Successful Dribble52%vs 25 central mids
"Can he beat a man in a straight 1v1?"
Successful take-ons /900.7480%
Take-on success34.38%24%
Progression33%vs 25 central mids
"Can he move the team forward with a pass, not just recycle it sideways?"
Progressive passes /902.018%
Line-breaking passes /900.9720%
Threat added by passing /900.65xT16%
Pass accuracy84.86%88%
Ball-Carrying40%vs 25 central mids
"Does he advance the ball himself when the pass isn't on?"
Progressive carries /902.7820%
Carry distance /9085.65m36%
Successful take-ons /900.7480%
Take-on success34.38%24%
Chance Creation9%vs 25 central mids
"Does he create real chances for others?"
Expected assists /900.03xA0%
Through balls /900.00%
Threat added by passing /900.65xT16%
Box entries (pass) /900.8720%
central midtempo controllerprogressionbox-to-box
590
minutes
7 apps
17
progressive passes
2.6/90
86%
pass completion
232 passes
3
key passes
0.46/90
4
box entries
0.61/90
22
final-3rd entries
3.4/90
12
dribbles
33% won
40
possessions lost
1.81 danger/90
Overview

The player

Who he is and how he compares with his peers.

01

What Patterns Define Him?

His repeatable signature. A step only appears if its reliability score (sample size × match coverage) reaches at least Medium confidence — pattern mining, not anecdotes.

RECEIVE
Central, Middle third — mostly in the middle third (64% of his 232 passes)
86% completion · 232× in 7/7 matches
↓
PROGRESS
drive or pass into the final third
2.6 prog/90 · 17× in 6/7 matches
↓
ARRIVE
get into the box late
3 key passes · 4× in 4/7 matches
↓
CREATE / FINISH
cut-back or shot from inside
0.46 key passes /90 · 2 goals · 22× in 3/7 matches
Signature: receive → progress → arrive in the box → create or finish. A box-to-box midfielder judged across every phase.
20

Where is he influential — vs where is he merely present?

Red fill = raw touch territory. Gold rings = zones where his influence (xT added, progression, line-breaks, key passes) outweighs how often he's actually there — one combined map instead of two separate maps to compare by eye. Red with no ring: present but not dangerous. A ring on faint red: rare touches, outsized impact.

own goal left, attacking →
33
passes / match
2.0
dribbles / match
16–58
pass range (matches)
1–4
dribble range (matches)
Pass range = his fewest and most passes in any single match this season (16 at the low end, 58 at the high) — a measure of match-to-match involvement, not pass distance. Dribble range works the same way, for dribbles/carries per match.
In possession

In possession

What he does with the ball: build-up, progression, creation, carrying and finishing.

08

How dangerous are his carries?

Real ball-carries

58 tracked carries (8.8/90, 6 progressive, 490m total) — the ball moving with his touches, a different signal from dribbles below (beating an opponent 1v1). this counts every touch-carry, not just his dribble attempts below — a fuller picture of how much of his ball-carrying is control-and-move rather than beating a man.

2%2%3%2%2%9%12%14%12%5%9%21%9%
progressivelateral/short% of his 58 carries originating in each zone · own goal left, attacking →
Every carry, exact path — median 8m, longest 28m
By zone — where the carry started → where it ended
4Outside → Inside
51Inside → Inside
2Outside → Outside
1Inside → Outside
First (17)Second (16)Third (16)Fourth (9)grouped by carry pattern (start + end position), largest group first
startendown goal left, attacking →

Dribbles (1v1s)

Yasin Ayari's signature is the dribble. Does he carry outside (down the left wing) or inside (into the half-space / centre)? Every dribble classified by channel. Season rate: 1.83 dribbles attempted /90.

brighter band = more dribbles · own goal left, attacking →
INSIDE 83%
OUTSIDE 17%
Dribble location — 10 inside · 2 outside
Right Wing
0 · 0%
Right Half-Space
3 · 25%
Central
1 · 8%
Left Half-Space
6 · 50%
Left Wing
2 · 17%
Vision AI 17% of his dribbles are in the wide left lane — he attacks the full-back on the outside, then threatens to cut inside onto his right foot.
09

How does he build & move the ball?

How he moves the ball — his 4 busiest progression routes, not where every pass starts and ends separately. Arrow width = how often, colour = xT gained, dashed = switch of play. The full breakdown is in the lane matrix below.

own goal left, attacking →
Lane transition matrix — when he receives in a lane, where does it go?
TO →RWRHSCLHSLWRW875%612%112%1RHS2635%938%104%119%54%1C9710%1029%2832%3124%235%5LHS544%211%631%1726%1428%15LW157%133%560%9FROM
Rows normalised: each row sums to 100% of that lane's completed passes. Grey number = passes from that lane.

Primary route: the left half-space in the defensive third → central areas in the middle third — 1 progressive passes (8% of his progression) at 0.061 xT each. He moves it inside.

His progression is inward: 54% of progressive passes move the ball toward the middle versus 23% going wider — he cuts in rather than holding width.

10% of his passes are cross-field switches — he changes the point of attack often.

Quality behind the volume: 6 line-breaking passes and 22 final-third entries, 0.7 total xT added.

Origin and destination are measured on the same event row — no receiver inference. Receiver identity is not recoverable from this data source.
All passes — origin zone share
Filter: from to
2%4%5%3%1%1%7%16%20%13%0%0%4%7%12%3%0%
completedincomplete232 passes · any zone → any zone · own goal left, attacking →
232
passes
86%
completed
32
lost
Vision AIIn line with his 86% season completion rate.
05

How does he progress play?

How much he drives the ball forward. Progressive = completed pass advancing ≥15 toward goal.

17
progressive · 2.6/90
22
final-third entries · 3.4/90
4
box entries · 0.61/90
11
progression index /90
Progression index: one composite number — progressive passes + progressive carries + 2% of total distance progressed + 8× positive xT added, all per 90. Weights VOLUME and THREAT together rather than counting progressive actions alone.
04

How does he create chances?

3 key passes (0.46/90), 0 of them assists — where his chance creation specifically comes from, 18 zones (6×3), showing his share of key passes originating there.

Chance creation — key pass origin zone share
Filter:
33%33%33%
chance creation (3)assist (0)% of the selected group's key passes originating in each zone
15

Can he finish?

19 shots · 1.40 xG · 2 goals (+0.60 vs xG). Mostly right-footed. Circle size = xG.

shots  19
on target  10
goals  2
xG  1.40
xG on target  1.56
xG / shot  0.074
Where he shoots from — click an area of the box
12

Where does he become vulnerable?

40 possessions lost. Directness has a cost — the question is where. Attacking-third losses are cheap; deep ones are dangerous.

17
attacking third (cheap)
17
middle third
6
own third (dangerous)
Vision AI 42% of losses are in the attacking third — a notable share happen deeper, which invites transitions.
Mistake danger (proxy): 1.81 danger-index/90 · 0.296 avg/turnover. Weights each loss by threat conceded at that location. True xT-conceded needs the opponent possession model; positional proxy.
13

What is his passing profile?

232
passes attempted
43%
mostly sideways
50%
mostly short
Direction
Forward
77 · 33%
Sideways
99 · 43%
Backward
56 · 24%
Length (completed)
Short (<15m)
100 · 50%
Medium
88 · 44%
Long (>30m)
12 · 6%
11

Preferred Progression Routes — xT-weighted

His progressive passes as zone→zone routes, weighted by expected threat (xT) added — arrow width and the number are the total xT generated on each route, not just how often he plays it. This is where he actually moves the needle.

0.460.290.270.150.140.14
own goal left, attacking →
Highest-value routes (xT)
0.46
Central Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
2 passes
0.29
Left Half-Space Mid third → Left Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.27
Central Att third → Right Half-Space Att third
1 passes · 1 to a shot
0.15
Left Half-Space Mid third → Right Half-Space Att third
1 passes
0.14
Central Mid third → Left Wing Att third
2 passes
0.14
Left Half-Space Mid third → Left Wing Att third
1 passes
06

Where Does He Receive?

The zones where Yasin Ayari gets on the ball — his top three ball-collection areas highlighted (gold = primary). Reception is proxied by where his on-ball actions begin (no explicit receiver is recorded).

123
1 = primary, 2 = secondary, 3 = third · own goal left, attacking →
His collection zones
26%
Primary
Central, Middle third
20%
Secondary
Left Half-Space, Middle third
11%
Third
Central, Attacking third
These are the zones where he collected the ball most.
07

Where Does He Operate? — Every Zone

Every on-ball touch (pass, dribble, shot) binned into a 6×3 grid — raw counts of where Yasin Ayari actually gets on the ball. Hover any zone for its breakdown by action type, its share of all touches, and the exact coordinate range it covers.

Filter:
191930112318384638104101284
own goal left, attacking → · brighter + higher number = more touches

Passes only — completed vs incomplete, by zone

Same zone grid, restricted to passes so completed/incomplete and match filters actually mean something — a shot or a dribble has no "completed" in the pass sense.

2%4%5%3%1%1%7%16%20%13%0%0%4%7%12%3%0%
own goal left, attacking →
14

Every Pass This Season — completed vs incomplete

Every pass this season, plotted individually — green = completed, grey (dashed) = incomplete, gold = key pass. Filter by outcome or isolate one match below.

3Key pass
1Cross
17Progressive
14Long ball
8Switch
By zone — where the pass started → where it landed
8Outside → Inside
135Inside → Inside
15Outside → Outside
42Inside → Outside
By direction
77Forward
56Backward
99Sideways
own goal left, attacking →
02

Tactical patterns — how his football actually looks

Three clustered sequence diagrams from his own event data — his three busiest routes: the way he progresses, the pattern behind his chances, and where a turnover turns dangerous.

own goal left, attacking →
How does he progress the ball forward?
His most common route for progressing play: he switches it out from the central to the left hs, advancing it forward in the middle third — 2 passes worth 0.46 xT.
Where do his chances come from?
Of 3 key passes, his busiest route is a delivery where he plays straight through the right wing in the middle third — 1 times. The receiver isn't identifiable in this data, only where the pass started and ended.
Where does he lose the ball most?
This is a RATE, not a raw count — the share of his touches in each zone that end in a turnover, so a zone he simply plays in more often doesn't automatically look riskier. His weakest zone is the left half-space in the defensive third: 30% of his 10 touches there are lost (3 times).
—1 touch · too few—3 touches · too few6%1/18 lost30%3/10 lost—1 touch · too few—4 touches · too few9%2/22 lost5%3/62 lost9%4/46 lost27%4/15 lost—6 touches · too few—6 touches · too few22%6/27 lost—7 touches · too few—4 touches · too fewRWRHSCLHSLWDEFMIDATT
03

Does he carry inside or outside — his ball-carries across the pitch

Four arrows, one per movement class of his ball-carries: outside→inside (cutting in with the ball), inside→outside (carrying wide), outside→outside (down the touchline) and inside→inside (through the middle). Each count is measured from the carry's real start and end coordinates.

own goal left, attacking →
Across 58 ball-carries, his dominant tendency is that he carries through central areas (88%). He carries from outside into the middle 4 times and out toward the touchline 1 — a genuine inside forward who cuts in with the ball.
10

What happens right after he carries the ball

Every carry's end point matched against his own very next pass or shot in the same match, when one starts almost exactly there — the direct continuation of that touch, not a separate stat. “No clean link” means no pass or shot of his own started close enough to count (often the carry ended in a tackle or a loss); it isn't a claim about exactly what happened, only that nothing traceable followed.

Shot
4 · 7%
Progressive / key pass
5 · 9%
Simple pass
44 · 76%
No clean link
5 · 9%
Of 58 carries, 7% flow straight into a shot of his own, 9% into a key or progressive pass — a genuine end product to the carry, not just ball retention. 9% have no clean link to a next touch of his own close to where the carry ended.
Out of possession

Out of possession

Where and how he defends and presses.

17

How & where does he defend?

61 defensive actions across the season (9.3/90). Where he wins the ball, and how — the core question for a defender. Aerial duels are not recorded for this competition, so aerial dominance is not measured here.

click a card to isolate that action type · own goal left, attacking →
4
tackles · 50% won
2
interceptions · 0.3/90
19
recoveries · 2.9/90
3
clearances · 0.5/90
6
blocks
51
avg action height
17
won high (att 3rd)
32
middle third
12
own third
Vision AI A front-foot / high defender. He wins the ball mainly by stepping in — tackles, interceptions & recoveries outweigh clearances. 25 proactive ball-wins (3.8/90), tackle success 50%. He defends high, stepping out to intercept — suits a high line.
16

Against Different Pressing Intensities

Split by how hard the opponent pressed (opponent PPDA — lower = more intense press). Does Yasin Ayari keep producing when the game is tight and the press is high? Tiers of ~2-3 matches — directional evidence, not proof.

press tier
xT /90
prog /90
key P /90
dribble%
High press (PPDA 4.3, 2m)
0.60
3.0
0.49
0%
Mid press (PPDA 5.8, 2m)
0.62
1.4
0.47
60%
Low press (PPDA 8.0, 3m)
0.73
3.3
0.41
33%
Team

Team context

How much of the team runs through him, and what changes without him.

18

Impact on the Team

Brighton's output per match with Yasin Ayari (7 matches) versus without him (1 matches). Insufficient evidence — the without-sample is only 1 matches; treat every Δ below as noise until more games exist. A proper on-off model needs many more minutes.

WITH (7)
WITHOUT (1)
Δ
goals for /match
2.86
3.00
-0.14
xG for /match
1.81
0.00
+1.81
goals against /match
0.43
4.00
-3.57
points /match
2.29
0.00
+2.29
19

His Share of the Team

Of everything Brighton produced this season, the categories where the biggest share ran through Yasin Ayari specifically — his share of the team total, not a per-90 rate.

category
share
him / team
successful take-ons
11%
22 / 195
goals
11%
2 / 18
shots
11%
60 / 542
Recruitment

Style and verdict

Style profile, closest comparables, and the summary.

21

Playing-Style Profile

Not raw event counts — football style scores: weighted models scored 0–100 against the 383 central mids in the pool (min 450 min). This is what separates players who post similar numbers but play differently. Proxy dimensions are inferred from on-ball data; true off-ball running / under-pressure context is not measured.

Tempo controller64%Transition runner57%Deep-lying playmaker57%Box-to-box runner47%
Why Tempo controller 64%: a weighted blend of retention 67 (weight 35%) + build-up 77 (weight 30%) + press resistance 54 (weight 20%) + progression 24 (weight 15%). The score reflects how distinctively his profile SHAPE matches this archetype vs his peers.
Elite
—
Strong
build-up, box threat
Average
defensive aggression, retention, ball-winning, press resistance, dribbling, receiving zones, through-balls
Weak
carrying, transition, creativity, line-breaking, final-third threat, progression, crossing, passing directness, territory (wide vs central)
Unknown
aerial ability, marking, off-ball running — not in event data
Build-up
77
Box threat
74
Defensive aggression
69
Retention
67
Ball-winning
64
Press resistance ~proxy
54
Dribbling
52
Receiving zones
44
Through-balls ~proxy
42
Carrying
40
Transition ~proxy
38
Creativity
31
Line-breaking
30
Final-third threat
28
Progression
24
Crossing
23
Passing directness
11
Territory (wide vs central)
3
22

Similar Players — in style space

Closest comparables measured on the style scores above, within the same position family — so it separates how players are alike, not just how much they touch the ball. Each line explains the shared strength and the divergent mechanism. A light physical-profile term (height / weight; this player: 172 cm / 69 kg) is included at a quarter of one style axis's weight — enough to break ties between stylistic twins, not to override style. Scope: pooled across the Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1 and Serie A, percentiled within each player's own league before comparing — a match from another league is marked with its league name.

Style, not quality: a high match here means two players tend to produce the ball in similar ways — it is not a ranking, a scouting recommendation, or a claim that they are equally good.

Felipe Loyola Pisa · Serie A 25/26 · 180 cm / 76 kg
78%
Driven by: crossing (27%), territory (wide vs central) (14%), passing directness (10%). Different mechanism — Ayari more via through-balls, dribbling; Loyola more via carrying.
Christoph Baumgartner RBL · Bundesliga · 180 cm / 73 kg
71%
Driven by: territory (wide vs central) (16%), box threat (14%), crossing (12%). Different mechanism — Ayari more via retention, through-balls; Baumgartner more via passing directness.
Mathias Rasmussen St. Pauli · Bundesliga 25/26 · 180 cm / 65 kg
67%
Driven by: crossing (19%), territory (wide vs central) (13%), creativity (12%). Different mechanism — Ayari more via box threat, receiving zones; Rasmussen more via passing directness, dribbling.
Mahmoud Dahoud Eintracht Frankfurt · Bundesliga 25/26 · 178 cm / 68 kg
67%
Driven by: crossing (30%), territory (wide vs central) (20%), progression (10%). Different mechanism — Ayari more via defensive aggression, through-balls; Dahoud more via passing directness, creativity.
Kamory Doumbia Brest · Ligue 1 · 170 cm / 53 kg
65%
Driven by: crossing (21%), defensive aggression (14%), territory (wide vs central) (13%). Different mechanism — Ayari more via build-up, retention; Doumbia more via creativity, passing directness.
Alpha Touré Metz · Ligue 1 25/26 · 180 cm
65%
Driven by: crossing (17%), passing directness (14%), progression (10%). Different mechanism — Ayari more via box threat, through-balls; Touré more via territory (wide vs central).
23

Summary

Yasin Ayari is a tempo controller / transition runner: 2.6 progressive passes, 0.46 key passes /90, 4 box entries, 2 goals from 1.40 xG. A box-to-box contributor across every phase.

Based on 7 matches (590 minutes) — an early read, treat with caution until more minutes are logged. He profiles as a tempo controller / transition runner — best used in a system built around that identity. His biggest room for growth is progression — even a modest improvement there would meaningfully lift his overall tempo controller profile.
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